Women in History

June

June 6: Born in 1939, Marian Wright Edelman, founder of the children's defense fund.

June 9: In 1949, Georgia Neese Clark is confirmed as the first female treasurer of the U.S.

June 10: Bridget Bishop is the first of the Salem "witches" to be hanged in 1692..

June 11: Born in 1815, Julia Margaret Cameron, English photographer.

June 14: Born 1906, photojournalist, Margaret Bourke-White.

June 16: In 1975, Junko Tabei is the first woman to reach the summit of Mount Everest.

June 17: Born in 1865, Susan La Flesche Picotte, Omaha Indian physician.

June 18: Susan B. Anthony is fined $100 for "illegal voting" in 1873. She informed the judge she would never pay the fine and never did.

June 22: Alice Gertrude Bryand and Florence West Duckering become the first women admitted to the College of American Surgeons in 1914.

From: Women Who Dare(Library of Congress)